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Japan's Russian War is a military conflict between Japan and Russia in the Far East. This conflict caused Russia to abandon its expansionary policy in the region and Japan became the first Asian power in modern times to defeat European power. Background of the Japanese Russian War At the beginning of the 20th century, Russia had become a world power that counts with large areas in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. On the other hand, Japan is seen as a rising Asian power thanks to the Meiji Restoration. In 1904, the Russian Empire, ruled by the autocratic Tsar Nicholas II, was seen as one of the largest territorial forces in the world. In that year the Siberian shipping center from Vladivostok was forced to close for months due to winter. Therefore, the empire needed a harbor of warm water in the Pacific Ocean, both for trade purposes and a base for its growing navy. To overcome this problem, Tsar Nicholas turned his attention to the Korean peninsula and China's Liaodong. The Rus...

The 6 Biggest Russian Energy Companies Russia ranks high among the top energy-producing countries in the world. According to the most recent industry data available, Russia is the world's single biggest producer of crude oil, the second-biggest producer of natural gas and the sixth-biggest producer of coal. Russia also ranks as the fourth-biggest producer of both nuclear power and hydropower. Most of Russia's biggest energy companies, including global giants such as Gazprom, Rosneft, and Lukoil, operate primarily in the oil and gas industry, with interests spanning the full length of the oil and gas supply chain. However, a hydroelectric power company, RusHydro, also makes a showing on this list of Russia's biggest energy companies by market capitalization. 1. Gazprom Gazprom is Russia's biggest energy company by a substantial margin. The company controls the largest natural gas reserves in the world, from which it produced more than 2.6 billion barrel of oil equivalent...

As the world's third-largest oil producer and second-largest natural gas producer, Russia is home to some of the biggest integrated oil and gas companies in the world. In fact, Russia's biggest companies by oil production volume include several mainstays on lists of the world's biggest companies. All of Russia's largest oil companies maintain substantial upstream and downstream oil and gas operations, including sprawling exploration and production divisions, petroleum refineries and petrochemical plants, and retail service stations. The top five oil companies are ranked here according to oil production volume in 2014, the most recent year for which figures are available. 1. Rosneft Rosneft is Russia's biggest oil company, with reported production of about 1.5 billion barrels in 2014. The company also ranks as Russia's third biggest natural gas company, with production amounting to more than 345 million barrel of oil equivalents (BOE). Rosneft has a market capita...